Yea so this Tesla C2070 is pretty stable now, ~980 seconds for a unit.

The default fan tends to keep the card at 80-85 degrees Celsius, but this computer room ambient temperature is always 22 degrees. The card seems to get warmer than the 6970 when both are at 50% fan, but It seems the 6970 fan is somewhat larger.

I guess if I run the card in TCC mode without a monitor plugged in the card may be a bit faster so I'll report back when I get to it.

@ Pogo yea I actually don't feel scared with crunching on the Tesla since it was intended to be run 24/7 anyway. The 6970 I give a break now and then with a few long gaming sessions :)

It's taking me 15 minutes for one unit, which is barely different than the other card for this, an oc'd 6970.

Maybe I need to overclock the shader; it's at the default of 1150MHz. Thing is I usually only overclock ati cards, all the nvidia cards I've had were quadros and stuff so I have no experience in this wrt what tools to use etc..

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Posted 2926 days ago by sauceboat
Only one unit of anything. I tried running two mw with appinfo but that crashed, though looking back it could have been this reason (like i opened up gpuz to check stuff) and nothing to do with running two at once.

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Posted 2928 days ago by sauceboat
I think this may be something deeper than just primegrid. My system seems to freeze up when ANY opencl "crunching" app is running and anything elses tries to use the gpu.

If I disbale gpu acceleration in flash plugin it doesnt crash. I think I also enable gpu acceleration in vlc which I can disable.

As for GPU-Z I guess it does just about everything on a gpu to probe it so obviously it would cause the crash reaction and there's no way to disable it. Problem is, GPUZ is the only thing I have that gives me the current gpu load.

I guess I just need to be careful about launching youtube links or any other "traps" lol while running pg or some other stuff.

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Posted 2928 days ago by sauceboat
Ok 11.5 driver now and still freezes the system upon youtube. I think opening gpu-z also freezes it since it did before but I'm not going to try.

I think I found out why though. OpenCL seems to have dissapeared from the system. I tried running OpenCL programs and they all dont work, and tried the folding@home GPU3 client which is OpenCL based and no go.

The AMD driver is APP included, I downloaded the driver again and it says everything is installed already. I went to the AMD developer route and apparently gives the same installer which doesnt do anything as it detects all the options are already installed. Im pretty sure I saw OpenCL checked and available after doing the bios unlock in gpuz and now it's gone. I'm going to flip the bios switch to reset and if that doesnt work do a driver cleanup and clean install then see how it develops. Thanks for the help so far.